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Big Lipped Alligator Moment: For a Monty Python film, Life of Brian is very reasonably paced and well-grounded — save for the scene where Brian falls off of a tower to be saved by a passing flying saucer, taken into space to pass through an intergalactic war, and then brought back to Earth in a crash of alien metal — right at the foot of the same tower. The scene was added merely to give Brian a way to escape the tower.
Some have speculated that it may be a reference to the conspiracy theories regarding UFOs popping up in the backgrounds of paintings of Christ. Given the amazing amount of research done it's plausible, but doesn't seem to be the case.
I thought this was a reference to some of the weirder stuff the Mormons believe in.
A few ministers said that Brian was supposed to be Jesus. They had come into the theater late and missed the first fifteen minutes, which establish that Jesus exists in this universe as a separate person from Brian.
Even if Brian was Jesus, the charge that they were mocking him doesn't really stick — Brian is the Only Sane Man.
Well, presumably if they thought he was Jesus, bits such as when he appears nude after having sex with Judith don't go over that well.
The scene were Stan/Loretta defends his right to have babies is even funnier with the advent of Mister Seahorse fan fiction.
"People called Romanes, they go the 'ouse?!" — to anyone who's ever read a computer-generated translation of anything.
Magnum Opus Dissonance: The Monty Python crew consider this to be their masterpiece, but most other people say that the less controversial Monty Python and The Holy Grail is the best thing they've made. John Cleese once stated that most people in Great Britain are a fan of Life of Brian, while Americans like Holy Grail better.
It's simple really — Holy Grail is sillier, more random, more madcap and for want of a better word more "Pythonesque", which some people find simply funnier. Life of Brian is arguably the better film and its humour is much more incisively satirical than the outright looney Holy Grail.
Never Live It Down: Brian tries to chase off his followers. It doesn't work.
Shown Their Work: They managed to get a lot of historical details right in the film.
When it comes to the controversy about the film, it rapidly becomes clear that the Pythons know what they're talking about a lot more than the Moral Guardians do.
Tear Jerker: The bits between the botched (or successful, depending on your outlook) Suicide Squad raid and the finale. Brian is being crucified, and not even those he loves are going to help him. His lover takes his "martyrdom" with pride, and his mother berates him and leaves him for dead.
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